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to large, turbinate; skin smooth, bright yellow, dotted with gray, flushed with rose at 

 maturity; flesh white, very fine, melting, very juicy, sweet, acidulous, perfumed; very 

 good; Aug. and Sept. 

 Favorite Morel, i. Guide Prat. no. 1876. 



Obtained from a seed of Bartlett by M. Morel, a nurseryman at Lyons, Fr., in 1874. 

 Fruit rather large, obtuse-pyriform, suggesting in form a long Bartlett, somewhat 

 bossed in outline; skin a little rough, passing from greenish-yellow to golden-yellow, mottled 

 with fawn; flesh white, fine, melting, compact, juicy, fresh, vinous, acidulous; first; Oct. 

 Feast. I. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 759. 1869. 



Originated with Samuel Feast, Baltimore, Md., from seed of Seckel. Fruit medium, 

 obovate-pyriform, greenish-yellow, with brown dots; flesh whitish, juicy, sweet; good; 

 Sept . 



Felix de Liem. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:151, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 759. 

 1869. 



A posthumous variety from the seedlings of Van Mons at Geest-Saint-Re'my, 1853. 

 Fruit below medium, turbinate, generally obtuse, greenish-yellow, very much mottled 

 with dirty or dusky brown, much speckled bronze-russet on side next the sun and some 

 traces of crimson streaks; flesh yellowish, fine, melting, juicy, sugary, slightly perfumed; 

 second; early Nov. 

 Felix Sahut. i. Rev. Hort. 151. 1902. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 135. 1920. 



From Passe Colmar crossed with Bartlett by Arsene Sannier; new in 1902. Fruit 

 similar in appearance to Passe Colmar; flesh fine, juicy, melting, sugary, with a very agree- 

 able perfume; very good; Nov. to Jan. 

 Ferdinand Gaillard. i. Guide Prat. 103. 1895. 



Fruit large or very large; skin smooth, brilliant yellow all over; flesh yellowish-white, 

 fine, tender, very melting, juicy, very sugary; good or very good; Nov. to Jan. 

 Ferdinand de Lesseps. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:154, fig. 1869. 



Raised by Andre" Leroy in 1864. Fruit medium, ovate, not very regular, bright yellow, 

 extensively washed and marbled with brown-russet; flesh white, very fine, melting; juice 

 very abundant, acidulous, very sugary, with an exquisite flavor; first; early Oct. 

 Fertility, i. Jour. Hort. N. S. 1:555, fi g- io- 1880. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 

 174. 1920. 



Raised by T. Rivers , Sawbridgeworth, Eng., in 1875, from Beurre' Goubault. Fruit 

 medium, obovate, even and regular, entirely covered with a bright cinnamon coat of russet, 

 tinged with orange on the side next the sun; flesh semi-melting or crackling, very juicy, 

 sweet, with a rich, highly-perfumed flavor; good; Oct. 

 Figue. i. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:183. 1768. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 576. 1884. 



The pear described under this name by Duhamel in 1768 is quite different from the 

 pear Figue d'Alengon with which it has been confused, the Green fig of Biedenfeld or 

 Longue Verte of Leroy. Origin uncertain. Fruit medium, long-pyriform, green and next 

 the sun of a dull dark red, entirely covered with numerous dots and patches of brown- 

 russet; flesh white, tender, buttery, melting; juice sweet, sugary, perfumed; excellent early 

 dessert pear; Sept. 



